to think it's wrong to leave a baby/toddler sleeping alone in a hotel room?

When you have a monitor and are still in the premises?my friend says she does it when on holiday, she goes to the bar/restaurant and responds to the monitor if her 2yo dd wakes, I was shocked and said I wouldn't ever want to, I stay in the room and read a book/have a bath. Aibu to think what she's doing is wrong? I don't want to refer to famous cases but to me there's too much risk.

I regard my contribution thus: Positionality has been characterised Robert Merton (1988, 18) as taking the role of the ultimate participant in a dual participant-observer role; in other words, the researcher is herself a member of the social world under study (Anderson, 2006).

In one fell swoop, I reinforce every one of spero's irritations with academics!

I don't think you're even in the ball park. I think I'll need to sit on the fence on this one. Either that or decide to go after the low hanging fruit. Either way, you have been punching way above your weight.

(ex-sales person who worked for an organisation which loved to use clichés)

I am in fact supposed to be WORKING or at the very least re-writing the kitchen health and safety policy in light of yesterday's appalling slip up re correct placing of open milk carton, so I am going to have to turn my computer off now as I clearly have no self control at all.

May I qualify my earlier answer to say that disagreeing with me does set up a presumption that you are in fact wrong, but I may grudgingly allow you to rebut that presumption on provision of very compelling evidence.

Ok.So to answer the op better, the op's friend is taking more of a risk, legally wise, if she is already known to social services?Because if something did happen, and she was already known to social services, there could be serious repercussions.I think I meant, untested, as in untested monitor wise. Not sure now. Cant quite remember.

Prettybird - quite a chilling example of law of unintended consequences. By trying to save our children from dangers of cars we actually make them MORE likely to die by refusing to allow any opportunity to develop road sense in a relatively safe environment.

Buffy, it should be clear to you that I have NO time for your feminist whimsy, what with running a v tight ship at home <hoicks clipboard> and constantly contributing insightful and provocative postings to various on line debates.

Yams - in the long run it may have been the right decision to remove my client's child. She was finding it hard. I just thought using this five min trip to get cigs as the trigger to removal was unjustified.

I would have done the same.

SW are just human like the rest of us, subject to the same prejudices and quirks. They should be better trained than most of us and try to put prejudices to one side but no person, or system is perfect, just as no risk is ever entirely absent.

And as I said, the Judge supported the decision to remove. So they were not permitted to make a unilateral and permanent decision. So I don't accept decisions are 'untested'.